1984

Paperback, 128 pages

Published Oct. 31, 2021 by Ithaki Yayinlari.

ISBN:
978-625-7442-34-3
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5 stars (9 reviews)

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.

Also contained in:
Novels (Animal Farm / Burmese Days / Clergyman's Daughter / Coming Up for Air / Keep the Aspidistra Flying / Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Novels (Animal Farm / Nineteen Eighty-Four)

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Una obra fundamental sobre el totalitarismo.

5 stars

Distopía escrita por George Orwell en los años cuarenta del siglo XX, 1984 ha marcado nuestra concepción, nuestra comprensión de lo que es un totalitarismo. Y no solo el soviético estalinista al que alude de manera más obvia con ese Gran Hermano con bigote cuya mirada en los carteles parece seguirte, sino también a otros totalitarismos más sutiles, vigentes, que afectan íntimamente nuestra esfera privada.

Para quien piense que es una exageración que nuestra sociedad también esté, al menos en parte, retratada en esa novela, le traigo una anécdota de lo más ilustrativa: hace unos años Amazon, por problemas con la editorial de varios de los libros de Orwell, eliminó de todos los dispositivos Kindle, a distancia, precisamente 1984 y Rebelión en la Granja. Y lo hizo sin necesidad de entrar casa por casa, sin necesidad de quemar papel. Fue cuestión de que un tipo en un edificio lejano apretara …

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5 stars

seminal work. perturbing. resonates with today


I've been hearing about this book since forever. It's much more than a book - it's a study on mass manipulation, emotion detachment, lack of free will. A universe inside itself - the author devises the creation, build up and full replacement of the current language and visit a supposed manual of it.
As a story it runs at different paces throughout the book. Very well described, timeless and frightening in it's echoes in today's social and cultural progress.
Not giving 5 to the story as it's so intricate and moving, but also the changes of pace leaves the reader somehow ungrounded and sad. Very well put.